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Searching for life

CHANUKAH EDITION 5776 LITERARY SUPPLEMENT I. There’s no place like home, as Dorothy famously proclaimed in “The Wizard of Oz,” and yet, conversely, like the title of Thomas Wolfe’s posthumous novel, You Can’t Go Home Again. Dorothy’s violent uprooting from her farm, chased by an evil nemesis, her surreal travels through a cyclone that ultimately landed her in a Goldene Medinah, could be a metaphor for European Holocaust survivors who, following their cataclysm, made a new home in the United States and other corners around the globe. Their journey to Oz was not an illusion, or a nightmare, from which one could awake. Unlike Dorothy they could tap their heels ad infinitum but would never be transported back to their pre-catastrophe lives. No matter how […]
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